Online JSON Formatter

On this site, you can find a free online JSON formatting tool for your personal or professional usage.

When trying to read and go over JSON data, you will find that it's quite difficult to make sense of it sometimes because line breaks are often omitted to save space. Using the online JSON formatter, the data is formatted in a way that makes it easy to read and thus debug errors in the data.

To make use of this free online tool, simply paste your JSON data into the field below and click on "Format!". On the following page, you will be presented with a neatly formatted version of the entered text string.

Format code in the JSON format

JavaScript Object Notation, or in short: JSON, is an open standard data format that is language-independent. It uses human-readable text, expressing objects and other data that consist of pairs made up of an attribute and it's value. It is used to transmit data from a server to a web application and vice versa, forming a versatile alternative to the XML format.

JSON was originally derived from JavaScrip, yet it's language-independence allows the generation of JSON data using other programming languages like PHP or Python as well.Files containing JSON code make use of the file extension .json.